Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.

We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Every situation I have ever been in I have been trained for, and I dealt with it to the best of my abilities.

When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

You have to make it happen.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

Don’t tell me that it is tough. It is at least as tough as you think it is. But what is the alternative? It is to do nothing?

It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.

We always try to correct what we did wrong; you can always learn something when you lose.

I suddenly thought, if I was going to make a go of it, I was going to have to look after myself and not keep apologising for knocking people over. That transformed my career.

Everybody will have their things to say about what I can or can't do. At the end of the day, I'm the one who has to put on the jersey and play.

Remember that before joining Arsenal, I was at Marseille where it was easy for me because I was with my family; I was born there and had played for them since I was nine. I came here on my own, and you grow up more quickly that way. It made a difference, because now I have become a man.

You just have to get on with life, there's no alternative. You could curl up in a ball on your bed, but that's not going to achieve anything.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.

A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn't kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems - you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself - and you just began doing what's necessary to solve your problems yourself.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.